The Limits of the Ethical Turn: Troping towards the Other, Yann Martel, and Self

Kamboureli, Smaro

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“…Den kanadensiska poeten och teoretikern Smaro Kamboureli varnar för att den etiska vändningen om den antar teleologiska, normativa mål tenderar att "konstruera den Andra som ett sår", där den etiska omsorgen läser "empati som patologi." 268 Också Ahmed beskriver hur inställningen att bejaka mångfald och integration ofta medför en förväntan på anpassning till den rådande formen. 269 Taylors försvar för särbehandling av minoritetsgrupper beaktar just denna problematik, där en minoritet har små chanser att förändra den stora gruppen.…”

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eudaimonia

2011

Dictionary of Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling

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This essay aims to examine Martha Nussbaum's proposal for a classical defense of reform in liberal education and her critique of utility thinking in higher education. I want to explore how Nussbaum uses history to create an ethical alternative that cultivates both moral and intellectual virtues, which she considers to be crucial for the survival of democracy. In examining Nussbaum's use of Aristotle, I focus on her work as a proposal for institutional implementation of an Aristotelian epistemology and the cultivation of the individual as an ethical political subject. This study highlights the epistemological, educational and political ideas that form the basis of Nussbaum's ideals. I intend, however, to go beyond a contextualizing reading and thus establish a dialogue with a radical intersubjectivity to respond to Nussbaum's ambitions to recognize human vulnerabilities as assets for reason. From this perspective, I problematise Nussbaum's aspirations for reform and argue that she maintains a loyalty to an ideal that stands in contrast to the possibilities for epistemological and thus ethical political change.

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eudaimonia

2011

Dictionary of Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling

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Multilingual Novels as Transnational Literature: Yann Martel’s Self

Sabo¹

2014

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Yann Martel’s experimental novel Self (1996) recounts the story of a young man’s gender transformation as he negotiates his national and linguistic identity through cosmopolitan and multilingual affiliations. To convey the tropes of mobility and flexibility, the novel juxtaposes English and several other languages in parallel columns, inviting comparisons across discrete linguistic and literary traditions. Conceptualized from the start as a multilingual novel, Self challenges monolingual ways of classifying national literature and raises questions about plurilingual texts’ placement in literary canons, their implied readers, and their translation into other languages. This article draws on recent debates about transnationalism to read Self as a novel whose formal strategies require a mode of reading predicated on comparison and translation. Readers are encouraged to simultaneously conceive of distinct languages relationally and uncover the hegemonic relationship between global and local languages in Canada and internationally. Through its formal aesthetics, which underscores both the opportunities and limits of multilingualism, Martel’s polyglot novel contributes valuable insights to current discussions of transnational literature.

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The Limits of the Ethical Turn: Troping towards the Other, Yann Martel, and Self

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Multilingual Novels as Transnational Literature: Yann Martel’s Self

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